As I’ve written before, for all the platitudes mouthed for the news cameras, there is clearly no real will in the Albanese government to tackle anti-Semitism. Not when there’s so many Muslim votes in key Western Sydney seats at stake, as well as a battle with the Greens for the far-left Jew-hater vote. Education Minister Jason Clare appears to be a decent exception, as he so often is.
But as far as the top of the Labor pyramid, PM Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, are apparently concerned, Jews can go hang. Probably literally, if that’s what it takes to keep the far left and Muslims on-side.
So, despite escalating anti-Semitic violence, most lately with last weekend’s ‘Kristallnacht on the Yarra’, Albanese is sticking to his policy of not doing a damn thing.
Anthony Albanese has dismissed a request from the peak Jewish body to revisit its plan of action on anti-Semitism, saying he had already met with Jewish leaders, and every time there had been a request “it had been met”.
This is a barefaced lie. Not only did Albanese take almost 24 hours to even acknowledge October 7, he has still pointedly refused to visit Israel for over 18 months. Wong took six months to even deign to grace Israel with her presence – as a brief stopover on her tour of the Arab Middle East – and point-blank refused to visit the massacre sites.
At every step, Wong has parroted Hamas’ rhetoric and demands.
Nor have Labor bothered to take action on a 15-point action plan to tackle anti-Semitism.
“We have a taskforce,” Mr Albanese said.
“What we do is take on security issues. We take advice from security agencies. That’s precisely what we have done.”
Don’t piss on our legs and tell us it’s raining, Albanese. Your own security agencies have been telling you to act hard and fast on spiralling hate – and you’ve done nothing.
Sussan Ley has reaffirmed that the coalition has committed “wholeheartedly” to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s 15-point plan to combat anti-Semitism after Anthony Albanese appeared to dismiss the suggestion earlier on Tuesday.
Speaking outside the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue, the opposition leader said anti-Semitism had “reached an unacceptable level” in Australia.
“What is so clear is that hate can never be normalised,” she said.
“It can never be excused. It can never be explained away. We stand with the Jewish community in Australia today and every day. We won’t look away. We will be here to see this through […]
“There shouldn’t be an ability for people to chant the words death – and I’m not going to complete the phrase – on the streets of Melbourne and it just be accepted,” she said.
“It is not a protest. It is hate. Pure hate. And we need to have laws and we need to have levers.
“And I would respectfully ask the Premier of Victoria to consider how she might instruct law enforcement in a way that allows a stronger intervention.
The best Victoria Police have managed so far is telling the brownshirts smashing up Jewish businesses that they’re ‘disappointed’. Oh, and arresting Jewish Australians if they so much as dare let themselves be seen in public near the foaming anti-Semitic mobs who have taken over the Melbourne CBD every week, for the last 18 months.
When even Jacinta Allan is showing you up, Albo, we really know just how useless you are.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced a new anti-hate taskforce, following a spate of anti-Semitic incidents in Melbourne at the weekend, including an attempted firebombing attack on a Melbourne synagogue.
Ms Allan, who on Monday visited the historic East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, said the taskforce would be in addition to the Local Escalation and Help (LEAH) group established by the government in the wake of the bombing of Ripponlea’s Adass Israel Synagogue in December […]
Victorian Liberal Opposition Leader Brad Battin said the government had failed to deal with the hate crimes occurring in the state and called for police to be given stronger powers to move protesters on in order to crack down on hate speech.
They have the powers: they just won’t use them. Except against Jews.
Labor, like the rest of the left, have chosen their side: and Jews aren’t on it.
